Rising temperatures are going to hit India hard and by the end of the century the mean temperature rise is expected to be between 3.5 and 4.3 degrees Celsius.

US secretary of state Hillary Clinton and minister of science and technology and earth sciences Vilasrao Deshmukh’s joint meeting looked at the sharing of high technology in five key areas.

In its evaluation of Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission (NSM), the Council on Energy, Environment and Water’s (CEEW) has highlighted many of the problems the mission needs to overcome in order to achieve its goal of producing 20 gigawatts by 2022.

The IT and electronics industry insists that the entire collection mechanism of e-waste will need to be strengthened in order to make the new e-waste management rules effective.

The UPA’s flagship programme, the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), launched in 2005 has been described as a “failure” by none other than a high-level government panel headed by Planning Commission member Arun Maira.

Union minister for environment & forests Jayanthi Natarajan has assured minister for tribal rights and panchayati raj K.C. Deo that tribals will not be evicted from forest land Mr Deo had conveyed to Ms Natarajan that the implementation of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006 needed streamlining.

Indian farmers can heave a sigh of relief as the Meteorological Depart-ment has forecast a normal monsoon for 2012 with the rains expected to hit Kerala on June 1.

Cities in India are dreaming of becoming New York and London but we seldom worry about as basic an issue as sewage and its disposal in our country.

Tribal affairs and panchayati raj minister V.

The medical fraternity has taken a strong objection to ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) dispensing strong antibiotics to few months old babies.